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Interesting.
My idiotic thread, "omg teh terrorist milk" has 76 views but only 4 replies. Obviously, the sheer stupidity prompted potential posters to leave.
On the other hand, "Now doing loping and legwork" generated a reply from almost every viewer.
Thus we can tell the stupidity of the topic by this ratio. Or perhaps it represents the interest people have in the topic?
My idiotic thread, "omg teh terrorist milk" has 76 views but only 4 replies. Obviously, the sheer stupidity prompted potential posters to leave.
On the other hand, "Now doing loping and legwork" generated a reply from almost every viewer.
Thus we can tell the stupidity of the topic by this ratio. Or perhaps it represents the interest people have in the topic?
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Original post by Tron3k
Hey, can you add a column for the "Reply-To-View" ratio? Just kidding
How about a Stupid-To-Smart people ratio
(Insidious plot to bring down gdnet with Division-By-Zeros)
Gyzmo
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quote:Yeah, exactly. We just started recording views about an hour ago, so the counts for any threads created before then are misrepresentative.
Original post by MindWipe
Well... with this being all new. There are threads with more replies then views
quote:I''m a little concerned about that, honestly, but we''ll see how it goes.
Original post by MindWipe
Now we''ll just have to see what effect it will have on the community
quote:Probably, but not for a while.
Original post by MindWipe
Will you make a "Top10 viewed threads"!? O_o
Cooooooooooooooooooool
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Original post by MindWipe
But how will a "Top10 viewed threads" list work? People could just reload their own threads all the time!? And that wouldn''t be good for GDnet''s bandwidth >_<
/MindWipe
Do it by unique IP''s
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quote:Good point. Screw that.
Original post by MindWipe
But how will a "Top10 viewed threads" list work? People could just reload their own threads all the time!? And that wouldn't be good for GDnet's bandwidth >_<
quote:O_O
Original post by cowsarenotevil
Do it by unique IP's
That would take so much more storage space/cpu time than the current method. Right now, I can store the total number of views in 4 bytes. Your way, I'd have to keep a list of every IP that had ever viewed the thread.
That would get very large very quickly... maybe you could keep track of views in the last 5 mins... and only count a view of the same IP address after the 5 min time period was up.. kind of a compromise... I do realize that you just implemented this sweet feature and we say: "Wow this is sweet! Now make it better!!!", but we can''t help 
... I just think it would really be cool.
I do think that it will help show how those threads like "What''s your favorite ___________?" threads will have an equal number of views as posts because no one anctually reads them... they just post...
It will add a whole new dimention... very good!
Dwiel
[edited by - Anonymous Poster on Febtober 93, -4793 BC 56:69:80 MP]
... I just think it would really be cool.I do think that it will help show how those threads like "What''s your favorite ___________?" threads will have an equal number of views as posts because no one anctually reads them... they just post...
It will add a whole new dimention... very good!
Dwiel
[edited by - Anonymous Poster on Febtober 93, -4793 BC 56:69:80 MP]
Well, the whole reason I added the view count is that the overhead is fairly low. It wouldn't be so low if I start adding checks to make sure people aren't just upping their view count. Taking into consideration that topic.asp (where the increment is done) is the most frequently accessed page on our site, the extra overhead isn't worth it.
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Original post by Myopic Rhino
You''re welcome.
Sweet, it''s like a post edit every time someone views a thread. I will be really interested to see if this causes any 500 error brownouts during the next 24hrs (even with fixes, the server is still tiny compared to the load, remember the OMFG thread bogging down the server?). Well, I''ll reserve judgement and critical "I told you so" remark until we see what happens. Maybe since it''s modifying the thread table rather then the replies table it will be ok (thread table much smaller than replies table)
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